Barm brack is very wet

[ailbhe]

Also, I wonder what the etymology is? Freckled barm seems obvious. What's a barm?

Now I need to wash and shred the kale. I've also done three loads of laundry so far today; it's good drying weather.

I see from the BBCs Have your say page that there is no gender pay gap.

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=3755&edition=1&ttl=20071030135957

Well, I guess my blood pressure was already a little low. It's nice to know that I'm doing the moral thing by staying home minding my children, isn't it? Like a real woman or a proper mother ought to, not like all those fake women and lousy mothers who AGH HELP HED XPLOD WITH RAAAGE

Comments

[grumpyolddog.livejournal.com]

One comment summed up my feelings.

"I have just read the entire report and the 17% quoted is based on 'types' of jobs 'usually' taken by different genders. So a nurse compared to a policeman, or a childminder compared to a mechanic (both comparisons made in the report). The report does acknowledge that male and female candidates for the same role tend to be paid equally.

So the figures show equal pay for the same jobs regardless of gender. It's actually saying the jobs women tend to do are paid less than the jobs men tend to do".

Male nurses get paid the same as female nurses. WPCs earn the same as PCs. There is no gap, only rabble-rousing.

the gap

[liveotherwise.livejournal.com]

is in trying to work out why the work that women do is so undervalued, even if it is of greater complexity than that done by men. There's a useful article over here

http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/English/Nurses%20pay%20equity.htm

Hi Ailbhe - I've been reading for a bit, coming over from Alison and Layla, hope it's OK for me to comment too!

Re: the gap

[grumpyolddog.livejournal.com]

Well, valuation is supposedly a market function. In other words, people who pay for childminding decide whether its worth more or less than getting their car fixed. Also, childminding is an ongoing expense where car-fixing is (hopefully) occassional and emergency based. I don't think this report has a leg to stand on from that point of view.

If you want to pay your childminder more, feel free. Alternatively, as Kylie has shown us, there's nothing to stop a woman from being a mechanic.